The 20th anniversary of Andy Warhol's death is Thursday, and the Andy Warhol Museum is planning a series of events later this year to mark the milestone and Warhol's influence on art and culture.

	Andy Warhol on the Factory stairs in 1965. Click photo for larger image.

The events will include a poetry reading and photo exhibition by Lou Reed over the Labor Day weekend in September. A two- to three-day symposium on the post-Warhol years is planned for November or December, in conjunction with the University of Pittsburgh, Warhol Museum director Tom Sokolowski said.

An exhibition of major Warhol works owned by other collections is set for the museum in the fall, and the museum is planning a world premiere of Warhol's little-seen 1968 film "San Diego Surf," in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The museum may revive Warhol's 1971 play "Pork" and is still working on other Warhol-related events that may be announced later.

"We're trying to bring in new works -- as in the case of the film and the 'Pork' revival, and in the case of Lou Reed, a major figure in the Velvet Underground and the Factory," Sokolowski said.

"The focus is on new voices, not the same people who are always trotted out. The point of view is 2007, not 1967."

Warhol, born and raised in Pittsburgh, died at age 58 in a New York hospital on Feb. 22, 1987, after routine gallbladder surgery. Almost five years later the hospital paid $2.95 million to settle a malpractice suit filed by the Warhola family.

The Andy Warhol Museum, a part of the Carnegie Museums system, opened on the North Side in 1994.